Parklife
I'm having conflicting feelings about the local birdlife right now...
Pros:
- They're purdy...
- They twitter (and squawk) quite delightfully.
- They've finally triumphed over the nasty mynahs.
- They make me feel like I'm living a Swiss Family Robinson type existence in a big treehouse in the middle of nowhere, rather than in mundane suburbia...
Cons:
- They crap all over my washing...
You see, our back patio area has a grapevine... which has been quite productive this year. And grapes = birds.
grapevine also = squished grapes on the patio, and an interesting eau-de-compost fragrance in the near vicinity.
But worst of all is the grapes+birds=grapey birdcrap all over my washing. I have now finished washing one particular load of white for the third time! It's so damn frustrating...
Although I'm not going to take Miss H up on her suggestion, freely given in her own special vague way, after I'd been ranting and stamping and carrying on (as is my wont) "bloody birds, bloody grapes etc etc"
"I know! Lets just kill all the birds..."
"..."
Oh dear. What have I spawned?????
Labels: uberhausfrau
posted by actonb at 7:30 am
6 Comments:
I've got them in my backyard too - around 5am they come in.
I don't mind them - it's crows I bloody hate.
i once played a rainbow lorikeet in a musical production. my mum made the most amazing outfit.
have you thought about hanging up your washing inside? like a chinee laundry? its what i do and my clothes might smell like fags but at least there is no bird poo!
surfer - I love the lorikeets. Usually. I love that they live their lives in sucha hell-for-leather madcap kinda way. And are such social creatures...
mex - I have tried that, but seriously - I have 2 days to get the laundry done - and can you imagine how many loads I have to do?????? And the pathetic little washing line I have - it's one of those pull up thingies hanging off the fence. I have NO idea how the woman who lived in the house before us, managed. She had 6 kids!
I feel your pain. One of our neighbours has a mulberrry bush. The number of times I have washed and then rewashed my laundry due to mulberry shit...
There is no solution. Except killing the birds OR the grapevine. And I'm guessing you want to do neither.
OMel - we had a mulberry tree here when we moved in - it didn't last very long! The grapevine is all very lovely until you suddenly remember the crapness, but then it's too late...
Actonb,
Can you put a bird feeder full of some other kind of treat well AWAY from your washing? This was the strategy one of my friends undertook to stop possums from destroying her grapevine, and I believe it was quite successful (although note that she did not have the same problem with poo/washing).
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